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- patented by
- Cochran, Henry S.
- Cochran, H.S.
- Troemner
- Description
- Patent model for Henry S. Cochran, “new and useful Improvements in Scales for Weighing Bullion, Coin, &c.,” U.S. Patent 205,354 (June 13, 1878). Cochran was a weigher at the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia. The “H. TROEMNER PHILAD” inscription indicates the firm that made the model. In 1893, Cochran confessed to having embezzled gold bars worth $134,000 from the Mint vault.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- 1878
- ID Number
- CH.308961
- accession number
- 89797
- catalog number
- 308961
- Object Name
- Balance
- Object Type
- Patent Model
- Scales
- Measurements
- overall: 13 in x 12 in x 5 in; 33.02 cm x 30.48 cm x 12.7 cm
- overall: 13 in x 12 in x 5 in; 33.02 cm x 30.48 cm x 12.7 cm
- place made
- United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Chemistry
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Weights & Measures
- Record ID
- nmah_1689
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a0-e391-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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